everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

I watch a lot of bad movies...really. (I average watching 15 to 20 movies a week, most of which are independents, or B-movies.) Sometimes bad movies make me mad. (Why am I being treated like I'm an idiot? What talented person didn't get to make his movie because the studio spent it on this piece of junk?) Sometimes I'm sad. (What a horrible treatment of a book/story/author I like! What a botched opportunity!) TMR just makes me shake my head. I understand what the writers were trying for, but somewhere between the word processor and the screen, everything broke down. The movie is made competently, in the sense that the film is properly exposed and all the props seem to work, but everything else is pretty much hosed up.As an aside, I can pick locks fairly well (not as good as a decent locksmith, but better than your college room-mate) and I usually have two or three sets of picks, or a portable combination tool, with me in my car all the time. I can tell you with 80% certainty just by looking at a lock whether or not I'm probably going to be able to get it. After a minute or two of working on it, I can usually tell you whether I'll EVER be able to pick it successfully. And I sure as heck never pick a lock open that I can't pick closed, or allow myself to be locked into an area from which I can't escape.BTW, all the characters are jackasses and they all die.

The Mangler Reborn starts as Jamie Blake (Aimee Brooks) arrives home after she gets the sack from her job only to find out that her husband is leaving her, can her day get any worse? Sure it can, a water pipe could break & she could call repair man Hadley Watson (Weston Blakesley) who in fact might turn out to be possessed by an evil laundry mangler & kidnaps female victims to shove in the mangler & get, well, mangled. Of course the odds of that happening are slim but it still happens anyway. Back at Watson's house where the evil laundry mangler resides he throw's Jamie into a room & locks the door, however unbeknown to either Jamie or Watson father & son burglary team Rick (Reggie Bannister) & Mike (Scott Speiser) are also trapped inside the house after the decided to rob it. Can the terrified survivors escape from the house & avoid becoming mangled in the mangler?Written & directed by Erik Gardner & Matt Cunningham this sequel to Tobe Hooper's horror flick The Mangler (1995) turned out a whole lot better than I had expected, I mean I hoped for the best but feared the worst & I have to say I even quite liked certain parts of this. At this point I should also add that it has no connection to The Mangler 2 (2001) which doesn't feature any possessed laundry machines & is one of the worst films of all time. Clocking in at just under the 80 minute mark at least the film is short & to the point, although the story is undeniably silly as it revolves around a possessed laundry press but the script takes itself extremely seriously & tries to generate a fair amount of intensity which it is partially successful at. While watching The Mangler Reborn I couldn't help but be reminded of Wes Craven's excellent The People Under the Stairs (1991) with the plot about burglars breaking into a house, becoming trapped inside by the lunatic owners & facing all sorts of evil & danger. I thought the character's were better fleshed out & written than usual for a low budget horror, for instance when Mike discovers what is going on he actually tries to leave Jamie behind & save himself just like most people would in reality or at the end when Jamie escapes her room instead of just running she tries to lock the door trapping Watson inside & it just comes across like the character's are actually thinking & reacting like a proper person would. Well, that's what I thought anyway. The one big downer is that it gets fairly repetitive being set in the same house for the entirety of the film & the twist sequel driven ending isn't great after having the balls to kill everyone off including all the good guy's as well there's a ending which seems to contradict previous events in the film.Going straight-to-DVD I quite liked the simple way this was shot, there's no altering the speed of shot's, there's no colour bleaches or filters, there's no quick 'blink and you will miss it' editing & there's no shaky 'what's going on' hand-held camcorder photography. Basically you can see what's going on at all times & it's nice & clear which works for me. This is probably a bit gorier than the average straight-to-DVD low budget horror film & thankfully there's not a single horrible CGI computer effect in sight, a woman shoves her high heel shoe in someone's ear & there's a close-up as he pulls it out, there's a fair amount of blood splatter & some close-ups of people being put into the mangler & being stabbed & mangled. The mangler itself looks a bit silly as it has a conveyor belt lined with robotic style arms with knives attached.With a supposed budget of about $200,000 this is nothing more than competent & looks basic but at least you can see what's happening. Filmed in Los Angeles apparently. The acting is OK, a special mention goes to Aimee Brooks who is a very nice looking young lady if you know what I mean. Genre fans might recognise Reggie Bannister from the Phantasm series in which he plays Reggie.The Mangler Reborn turned out a whole lot better than I expected & with some fairly intense scenes, a very attractive leading lady & some decent gore I have to say this exceeded my expectations. It is certainly a lot better than The Mangler 2 & looks like Citizen Kane (1941) by comparison.

The bloodthirsty laundry machine is purchased at auction by repairman Hadley,who quickly becomes possessed and kills his wife.Some time later,Hadley is now abducting young women for the Mangler to kill.One such victim is Jaime,who is taken back to Hadley's house,where the Mangler devours its victims.But while Hadley was away father and son thieves Rick played by Reggie Bannister of "Phantasm" fame and Mike are doing some breaking and entering and it just so happens that their latest target is Hadley's horror house."The Mangler Reborn" is pretty bad.The gore doesn't come until the last 20 minutes,the action moves at the snail's pace and the acting is stiff.Still the third act of "The Mangler Reborn" offers plenty of blood and gore and is worth waiting for.5 out of 10.

I don't know...it didn't have a plot worth mentioning and it paced itself in such a way that you might expect from a film troubled with having to tell a ninety minute story without a story. However, it does make up for this with some finely crafted images.My favorite scene is when the protagonist kidnaps a woman from her front yard. It works, because it seems so real. There is a blandness to most of the set, intentional or accidental, that helps to bring several scenes like this one home to the viewer. Most of the film will grab your attention this way despite a ridiculous and sometimes embarrassing screenplay. So, while there is much better out there, horror fans might want to give this one a chance.